January Transfer Deadline Day

grego said:
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Is that our own Morbyd on the right :lol:
 
grego said:
i've got a few questions/comments about this.

this would really only work with your standard sliced loaf, pref. a large white warburtons style or mighty white (does that still exist)

wholemeal i think would be a disaster as it'd go to bits quicker than a leper in a wind tunnel.

round my way, your average bocadillo would be no good for window cleaning. the hard part of the baguette wouldn't absorp or clean anything. i guess could cut it in half and use the inside half, but then it's not a sandwich. if it's a sandwich, you couldn't use the inside half, cos it'd have butter or some filling on it. you'd literally be putting dirt on the window as you were cleaning it.

i guess you could use a variant like soda bread or something, something designed to soak **** up. i dunno 5 x the water of your average sliced bread......like those kitchen roll adverts.

also you couldn't toast the sandwich cos the grease off it would cause all sorts of hassle on the clean up operation. some might say toasting it automatically means it's not a sandiwch, it's actually a toastie. but some call it a toasted sandwich. that's a whole other debate though, so let's just deal with the sandwich window cleaning thing first.
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:lol:

drew a blank at a witty response to this, but :lol:
 
Morbyd said:
Great column by Martin Samuel in Wednesday's Mail re: the recent transfers, trickle-down economics, and the financial fair play rules.

I'm not a fan of the newspaper, and I often disagree with Samuel's columns, but I think he's hit the nail on the head this time.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...Samuel-Fair-play-Roman-75m-reaches-needy.html
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re the fairplay, surely a - it just re-inforces the status quo b - it will ramp up the commercialism, ticket prices; the books just have to balance, so buy a 50m player, but increase ticket prices/sell your stadium/a$$ to whoever and your books balance....leading to even more exploitation of fans?
 
grego said:
i've got a few questions/comments about this.

this would really only work with your standard sliced loaf, pref. a large white warburtons style or mighty white (does that still exist)

wholemeal i think would be a disaster as it'd go to bits quicker than a leper in a wind tunnel.

round my way, your average bocadillo would be no good for window cleaning. the hard part of the baguette wouldn't absorp or clean anything. i guess you could cut it in half and use the inside half, but then it's not a sandwich. if it's a sandwich, you couldn't use the inside half, cos it'd have butter or some filling on it. you'd literally be putting dirt on the window as you were cleaning it.

i guess you could use a variant like soda bread or something, something designed to soak **** up. i dunno 5 x the water of your average sliced bread......like those kitchen roll adverts.

also you couldn't toast the sandwich cos the grease off it would cause all sorts of hassle on the clean up operation. some might say toasting it automatically means it's not a sandiwch, it's actually a toastie. but some call it a toasted sandwich. that's a whole other debate though, so let's just deal with the sandwich window cleaning thing first.
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:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
 
agentundercover said:
re the fairplay, surely a - it just re-inforces the status quo b - it will ramp up the commercialism, ticket prices; the books just have to balance, so buy a 50m player, but increase ticket prices/sell your stadium/a$$ to whoever and your books balance....leading to even more exploitation of fans?
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I'm actually somewhat in favor of fairplay (seeing as my team is already at the top :lol:) but I can see how it'd make movement difficult. But that's not his point - he's saying that for teams that have owners willing to invest money from outside of football (thus avoiding the scenario you describe) then it should be ok, as long as it's not debt and presumably within reason.

But I was more interested in the trickle-down economics part of that article. Interesting watching the money trail, and an important point about how these big transfers end up helping a lot of teams.

Robbie G would appreciate - Chelsea's wild spending in 2003 saved West Ham from bankruptcy!
 
Jeez, all these ungrateful paupers should be thanking kindly, altruistic Mr Abramovich
 
Who said anything about altruism?
Simple cause & effect. A byproduct of the system. Motives are whatever they are.
 
Morbyd said:
Great column by Martin Samuel in Wednesday's Mail re: the recent transfers, trickle-down economics, and the financial fair play rules.

I'm not a fan of the newspaper, and I often disagree with Samuel's columns, but I think he's hit the nail on the head this time.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...Samuel-Fair-play-Roman-75m-reaches-needy.html
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That articles a nonsense tbh. Completely ignores the inflationary aspects of such a deal and why a club now HAS to pay £35m for a 'decent' player like Carroll.

It's an attitude that entirely suits the moneybags billionnaire game, and makes everyone involved (players, agents, sky, and plutocratic owners aside) continue in Turkeys Voting for Christmas scenario that currently engulfs the sport.
 
Olly said:
the spin is that he's doing everyone a favour :rolleyes:
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Somewhat. But it doesn't say Chelsea or the other clubs care if they're doing any favor or intended to do so :lol:

Dan x said:
That articles a nonsense tbh. Completely ignores the inflationary aspects of such a deal and why a club now HAS to pay £35m for a 'decent' player like Carroll.
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Don't think it's nonsense but I do agree about inflation, although (see posts above re: player transfer pricing) I think that hyper-inflation is limited to a certain number of players and clubs.
 
As a geordie, i'd just like to say Carroll is a greedy.........

On the other hand, £35m for a player who has played half a season in the Premiership...not too bad!
 
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